Jordan Ayew, a striker currently playing for Crystal Palace in the Premier League, caused a big shock when he had a four-year affair with Amanda, the wife of teammate Afriyie Acquah in the Ghana national team. Amanda even brazenly admitted to “eating spring rolls” with Ayew because her lover was superior in “manliness”.

When talking about Jordan Ayew, we cannot ignore this striker who was born into a family with a football tradition. His father is the former captain of the Ghana national team, Abedi Pele, and his brothers are both players, Andre and Ibrahim Ayew. It’s just that the fast, skillful striker on Crystal Palace’s payroll in the Premier League was caught up in a scandal when he had an affair with his teammate’s wife. Everything broke down when a recording leaked of Afriyie Acquah’s wife Amanda, former Torino midfielder and Ayew’s teammate on the Ghana national team, admitting that she had “played a small game” with Ayew many times.

It was even more noisy when this recording was released right after Jordan Ayew had just left Lorient to join Aston Villa for 8 million pounds in the summer of 2015. Also added, Ayew is a teammate of Afriyie Acquah has been with the Ghana national team since 2012. Because of that very close relationship, the news that Ayew “cuckolded” Afriyie was even more shocking.

Jordan Ayew while playing for Aston Villa

According to research, Amanda said that before marrying Acquah, she and Ayew knew each other and had a close friendship. “Jordan and I have been good friends since we were kids. We were even labeled as husband and wife by our friends,” Amanda shared. Ayew should have known how to behave properly, but instead he crossed the line with his teammate’s wife.

What’s even more shocking is that the affair between Ayew and Amanda did not take place in a short time, but lasted for 4 years. It’s just miserable for Acquah to be “cuckolded” by Ayew without even knowing it. “Everything that happened was beyond Acquah’s imagination. This is like a mental shock for him,” Acquah’s friends commented shyly at the time. The pain of being “cuckolded” by Acquah – a midfielder who played for a series of clubs in Italy such as Parma, Sampdoria, Torino, Empoli… – was multiplied when his promiscuous wife Amanda showed off her adulterous exploits.

“I had an affair with Jordan Ayew for the past 4 years, not just 4 days. He sent me a lot of nude photos. He is much more emotional than Acquah. I slept more with Jordan than with Acquah,” Amanda declared in the recording. Amanda also called her husband a “monkey”. At the same time, Amanda shocked many people when she criticized Acquah for being “physically weak” and not having great “manliness” like Ayew.

The climax of the embarrassing revelation and damage to her marriage with Acquah was when Amanda compared the size of her lover’s “weapon” to the sky-high difference compared to her “cuckolded” husband. According to Amanda, she and Ayew were always passionately in love during their long commute. “What’s the difference? I don’t feel any emotions when I’m with Acquah, but that feeling is very wonderful and hard to describe every time I’m with Ayew. It feels like they are two opposing worlds,” Amanda continued, “Acquah probably knows why I said that. Harsh but it is the truth. And it happened like that in reality.”

Jordan Ayew overtook Afriyie Acquah for “hanging around” with Amanda

According to Amanda, Acquah was jealous when he noticed the abnormality in the relationship between Ayew and his wife. “I swear to God. Every time Acquah caught us talking, he became jealous and angry. He didn’t even talk until I apologized,” Amanda said. Acquah’s suspicions finally turned into reality when the audio recording of his wife’s confession of adultery was leaked.

After the scandal broke, the relationship between Acquah and Jordan became extremely tense. According to some Ghana players, Acquah was so angry that he did not even talk to Jordan during a gathering of the Ghana national team in the Netherlands to prepare for a friendly match held here. Instead, Acquah only spoke to Jordan’s brother, Andre.

Faced with the noise, former star Augustine Arhinful advised Ghana’s head coach at that time, Avram Grant, to eliminate both Jordan and Acquah. “The Ghana Football Federation needs to talk to the players. If the conflict is real, they deserve to be removed from the team. A player’s personal matters cannot negatively affect the team,” Arhinful firmly affirmed. Meanwhile, Aston Villa Club refused to comment on the incident and said it was the players’ personal lives.